Courses

This course is taught via a live online classroom over a 4 hour session. The course provides a short, focussed analysis of IFRS 9 Financial Instruments to enable participants to evaluate the impact of IFRS 9 on the financial statements.

This course is taught via a live online classroom over a single 4 hour session. It focusses on applying IFRS 16 Leases. Topics include reviewing how IFRS 16 was applied, how to implement the Covid-19-Related Rent Concessions amendment and other significant application issues raised by the pandemic.

This course is taught via a live online classroom over 8 sessions, each of 4 hours' duration. This course provides a detailed overview of the major technical issues encountered when producing IFRS-compliant financial statements.

This interactive course will enable managers in the private and public sector to understand and apply a range of standards and tools underpinning Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) reporting. ESG issues are becoming increasingly financially material, companies, and public sector entities are looking to improve sustainability disclosure and performance. This course will provide the foundations in a number of key standards and frameworks used for ESG disclosures and reporting.

We are standing on the edge of a new frontier for organisations, accountants and corporate reporting. There has been an explosion of expectations, requirements, standards, and information around ESG Reporting in the past few years. Now we are seeing tangible outcomes, as jurisdictions coalesce around specific regulations and a few key bodies. This course will provide a foundation for engaging with ESG Reporting.

This course is taught via a live online classroom over 4 sessions, each of 4 hours' duration. It brings attendees up-to-date with the impact of coronavirus on 2020 financial statements, practical experience of applying IFRS 16 Leases, published amendments to Standards and current Exposure Drafts.

Governments are signing up to challenging climate change action targets, and other ‘green’ objectives, with considerable implications for public financial management. This course reviews current thinking and best practice across the public sector and public finance functions enabling you to assess your and your organisations’ priorities and development needs.

There is increasing awareness of the importance of good Public Financial Management (PFM) in facilitating democratic governance, macro-economic stability, effective use of resources and social development. The financial implications of the Covid pandemic and challenges such as climate change provide a difficult environment for managing public finances. Budget adjustments, resource re-direction, financing, fiscal balance and economic management are just some of the complex issues. This course will cover the techniques of effective PFM providing all involved in public finances with a good grasp of the key concepts and techniques needed to meet the challenges.

This course is taught via a live online classroom over 6 sessions, each of 4 hours’ duration. The auditing profession faces many challenges in response to changing financial and non-financial reporting landscapes, and global corporate governance failures in which auditors are implicated or questioned. This course includes a comprehensive workshop on new and proposed changes to the Auditing Standards and other relevant codes and guidelines issued by the IAASB and the impact of these on the audit process and professional assurance practices.

This course is taught via a live online classroom over 4 sessions, each of 4 hours' duration. The course provides an in-depth analysis of IFRS 9 Financial Instruments to enable participants to apply the principles and assess the business and financial implications of the standard.

This course looks at the impact of climate change on financial statements prepared in accordance with IFRS Standards, both today and into the future. Climate change, and the associated impacts are already implicitly addressed in a number of existing standards and there are clear demands that companies explicitly provide this information in their annual reports for 2021. In addition, standard setters, regulators, and investors have already started outlining their expectations for this area in the future, and we will consider what this may mean for financial statements going forward.

We are standing on the edge of a new frontier for organisations, accountants and corporate reporting. There has been an explosion of expectations, requirements, standards, and information around ESG Reporting in the past few years. Now we are seeing tangible outcomes, as jurisdictions coalesce around specific regulations and a few key bodies. This course will provide a foundation for engaging with ESG Reporting.